I didn’t become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
TOM CRUISEI love adventure movies, I just love action adventure films. It’s pure cinema and you go in and you’re lost to it. To me, it’s that challenge – I want to give an audience that ride, that entertainment.
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I’ve never done work for money, ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn’t do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.
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If someone wants to know about Scientology, they should just go and read about it themselves. That’s the best way to do it.
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Of course [I believe in aliens]. Are you so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?
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I kept looking [at Katie] and thinking, ‘This woman’s amazing.’ I’m happy that I’m with her. She’s amazing, and I’d think the same of her even if she wasn’t with me – she’s just amazing.
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Whether it’s making a film or raising my children, personally I’m striving to do the right things and to learn.
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I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
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I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
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Even in my dreams, I’m an idiot who knows he’s about to wake up to reality.
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I think if technology is used in a way that is not responsible, that is a bad thing. I think technology and where it is going inevitable, and there’s great benefits that can help an individual in society at large.
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I feel good about the decisions that I made and I’m happy. You know, I’m really happy.
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I’m someone who doesn’t believe in making my problems other people’s problems.
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What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.
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Here’s how I’ve lived my life: I’ve never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.
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I’m not greedy. I just want my half.
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Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don’t you ask me?
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